Preface; List of abbreviations and symbols; Part I. General Issues: 1.
Western language ideologies and small-language prospects Nancy C. Dorian;
2. Toward a typology of language endangerment Lenore A. Grenoble and
Lindsay J. Whaley; Part II. Language-Community Responses: 3. Technical,
emotional, and ideological issues in reversing language shift: examples
from Southeast Alaska Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer; 4.
Mayan efforts toward language preservation Nora C. England; 5. A chronology
of Mohawk language instruction at Kahnawà:ke Kaia'titahkhe Annette Jacobs;
6. Language endangerment in South America: a programmatic approach Colette
Grinevald; Part III. What is Lost: Language Diversity: 7. The significance
of diversity in language endangerment and preservation Marianne Mithun; 8.
On endangered languages and the importance of linguistic diversity Ken
Hale; 9. Living words and cartoon translations: longhouse 'texts' and the
limitations of English Christopher Jocks; 10. Documenting rhetorical,
aesthetic, and expressive loss in language shift Anthony C. Woodbury; Part
IV. Mechanisms of Language Loss: 11. Impact of language variation and
accommodation theory on language maintenance: an analysis of Shaba Swahili
André Kapanga; 12. A way to dusty death: the Matrix language turnover
hypothesis Carol Myers-Scotton; 13. Copper Island Aleut: a case of language
'resurrection' Nikolai Vakhtin; Appendix; References; Index of languages;
Index of names; General index.
